By March 9th....they have looked bad @ home for the most part and looked worse the last 2 or three games at home.
Teams have been gunning for the Vols but the teams Tennessee is getting ready to play have much much better Athletes and records.
Tennessee will not be able to turn it on and off against the teams beginning next Saturday.
Tennessee's weaknesses are not just on the boards.
Tennessee is out of position many times on the D when they pressure the opposing teams PG's to keep them beyond the Arc and Tennessee may have to resort to a 2-3 zone.
You come out cold against KY, LSU, Miss St., Ole Miss, Auburn the game may be over by half time.
Tennessee being #1 in the nation gives the above mentioned teams, who are very good teams already, even more energy and especially at home.
The teams we are about to start playing have the ability to run the score up on the Vols and go over them.
Tennessee better get more than rebounding fixed.
Teams we should have upped our game against and never looked back becomes close games so we think we can just turn on the burners and win.
Tennessee is going to need to have Bowden, Turner, Bone and the Admiral on fire in order not to be 24-7 by Tourney time
With our play lately it amazes me we only have 1 loss and its great for the school and fans buttttttttttttttttttttt..............................
Get ready for our 2nd loss and more following that and then we will see where we really belong by seasons end. Wake up time !
*Older fan drags a chair across the kitchen floor real slow, like J.T. Walsh does in Slingblade, and sits down next to the OP, like J.T. did with Carl...*
"Listen to me a minute, son. You need to understand something about college basketball. There are three seasons each year...the pre-season, the regular season, and the post-season. The only one that really matters is the last one, the post-season, because that's when they play they this big tournament of the better teams who have done reasonably well in the first two seasons. Some people call that the "tourney" and some people call it "the dance." This is how they determine the champion of all of major-college basketball. Teams play in that tournament until they either lose or win the whole durn thing by not losing a game in the dance. If you never lose a game in the tourney, they crown you the champion and give you a big banner to hang in your basketball gym at home. It says you won the whole durn thing, the dance and the championship, that year.
Tennessee's basketball team is right past the middle of the second season, its regular season. We are playing well enough right now that it seems likely we will be invited to the dance...that we get to play the third season, the one that matters.
We have a tough stretch of games coming up to finish the regular season. It is unlikely that we will win all of them. But that's okay.
What matters most is reaching the third season with a decent chance of winning the whole durn thing and bringing home a banner to hang in our gym. Now, remember...when that season starts, the third season, the dance, we gotta win them all. We can't lose a game.
What I'm a-trying to point out to you, young feller, is that now ain't the time to go all weany-beany on our guys. When the third season starts and we got us a chance to win it all by not losing, then we can all go weany-beany 'cause all three seasons, everything, will be on the line. I'll be right there with you myself, wearing a fresh grown-man diaper."